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The Dry Season in Haiti: a Window of Opportunity to Eliminate Cholera

Small outbreaks during the dry season should not be considered acceptable, since they likely play a leading role in the re-emergence of cholera during the rainy season.

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Alert 2013! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding

Civil society and regional organizations strengthening human security

How to prevent violence, transform conflict and create a more durable peace? It remains a key challenge for every reasonable individual embracing the values of humanity.

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Haiti – Dominican Republic Environmental Challenges in the Border Zone

Haiti and Dominican Republic to jointly counter environmental degradation and boost food security in border zone

The goal of the report is to promote increased national and local level bilateral cooperation to prevent or reduce tensions over border zone issues in addition to providing the framework for more sustainable livelihood practices and enhancing the resilience of the local populations.

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Forced Migration Review No. 43: States of fragility

Fragile states are risky environments. Many states fail in their responsibilities to their citizens but those states which are fragile, failed or weak are particularly liable to render their citizens vulnerable. Failures of authority or legitimacy can lead to the emergence of significant organised violence; the impact of this can then be compounded by the failure of the state to protect its citizens, especially minorities.

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United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund 2012 Annual Report

The UN's Central Emergency Response Fund dispersed US$485 million to projects in 49 countries and territories in 2012 – the highest amount since its inception.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Le défi de l’eau potable - Les Dossiers du Mois No. 009, avril 2013

Riche en eau mais pauvre en infrastructures d’accès et de traitement ; une équation qu’Haïti s’efforce de résoudre, alors que 45% de la population n’a pas accès à l’eau potable. Pourtant, l’accès à une eau de qualité et à l’assainissement est un droit humain fondamental, dont le respect est intimement lié au développement du petit pays de la Caraïbe.

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Housing Delivery and Housing Finance in Haiti: Operationalizing the national housing policy

Report
Oxfam

Although the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of Haiti's urban infrastructure, it is not the sole cause of the nation's distress today. Rather, the earthquake exposed weaknesses in Haiti's housing ecosystem—including delivery blockages and the absence of effective supply and demand value chains that must be addressed or the nation will never be able to build a successful society with quality affordable urban housing.

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Global Estimates 2012 - People displaced by disasters

98% of all displacement in 2012 was related to climate- and weather-related events, with flood disasters in India and Nigeria accounting for 41% of global displacement in 2012.

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Persistance du choléra en saison sèche en Haïti : Épidémiologie – État de la lutte – Recommandations pour une élimination rapide

  1. Introduction

En octobre 2010 débutait en Haïti une épidémie de choléra dont la brutalité et l’ampleur restent sans précédent depuis le début de la 7e Pandémie en 1961. Malgré une intervention rapide du MSPP massivement appuyée par les ONG et la coopération internationale, l’épidémie persiste toujours dans ce pays de 750 km et millions d’habitants. Près de deux ans et demi plus tard, environ 650 000 cas suspects et plus de000 morts ont été recensés par le Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population (MSPP).

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WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2012

WMO Annual Climate Statement Confirms 2012 as Among Top Ten Warmest Years

GENEVA, 2 May 2013 (WMO) The World Meteorological Organization’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record despite the cooling influence of a La Niña episode early in the year.

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« Nulle part où aller ». Expulsions forcées dans les camps pour personnes déplacées d'Haïti

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Amnesty

Les expulsions forcées pratiquées à Haïti aggravent la situation déjà désespérée de milliers de gens qui vivent toujours dans des camps pour personnes déplacées, plus de trois ans après le séisme dévastateur de janvier 2010, a déclaré Amnesty International à l’occasion du lancement d’un nouveau rapport, « Nulle part où aller » – Expulsions forcées dans les camps pour personnes déplacées d’Haïti.

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‘Nowhere to go’: Forced evictions in Haiti’s displacement camps

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Amnesty

Almost 1,000 families have been forcibly evicted from their homes between January and March this year – an about-turn from 2012 when forced evictions were on the decline.

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Moving forward with technology: Another tool in the toolbox?

Are we actually moving forward with technology? We have new partnerships, innovative technologies, and we definitely have the motivation, so where are we going with it all?

In 2012, a panel of humanitarian IT and telecommunications experts identified seven key lessons to be learned by the emergency response community, spanning IT innovation, new technologies, partnerships, resource-sharing and social media. It was agreed that these needed to be implemented in order for the community to advance and save more lives.

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Bi-Annual Report on Human Rights in Haiti, July - December 2012 (Executive Summary and Recommendations)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report presents and analyses key elements of the human rights situation in Haiti during the period July to December 2012. It follows a previous report covering January to June 2012, published in October 2012. The second half of 2012 has seen some positive developments in human rights protection, but has also been marked by a lack of implementation and follow-up on important advances identified in the first half of the year.

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Rapport semestriel sur les droits de l’homme en Haïti, Juillet - Décembre 2012

Port-au-Prince, le 18 avril 2013

La Section des droits de l’homme de la MINUSTAH/Haut-Commissariat aux droits de l’homme en Haïti publie, ce jeudi, un rapport semestriel sur la situation des droits de l’homme dans le pays.

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Improving child nutrition: The achievable imperative for global progress

Progress shows that stunting in children can be defeated – UNICEF

DUBLIN, 15 April 2013 – A new UNICEF report issued today offers evidence that real progress is being made in the fight against stunted growth – the hidden face of poverty for 165 million children under the age of five. The report shows that accelerated progress is both possible and necessary.

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Breaking Open the Black Box: Increasing Aid Transparency and Accountability in Haiti

New Report on U.S. Aid to Haiti Finds “Troubling” Lack of Transparency, Effectiveness

“Haitians, U.S. taxpayers unable to verify how U.S. aid funds are being used on the ground”

For Immediate Release: April 3, 2013 Contact: Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460

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The Year of Recurring Disasters: A Review of Natural Disasters in 2012

After several years of mega-disasters and consequent high funding for disaster response, international humanitarian disaster funding dipped to the relatively low 2009 level.

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Helpdesk Research Report: Violence against women and girls in Haiti

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Violence against women and girls in Haiti: What do we know about prevalence, drivers and perpetrators of violence against women and girls in Haiti, in both rural and urban areas? (Note any available information about trends in violence following natural disasters and other emergencies). What organisations are working to reduce women and girls’ vulnerability to violence in Haiti? Please summarise their principal programmes and projects.

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